Mother’s Day Corsage {Crepe Streamer Flowers}

I’m still playing with the crepe party streamers…I had no idea how easy this stuff ruffles! The flowers turned out so pretty yesterday that I thought they would make great corsages for Mother’s Day. If you missed the sewing tutorial you can find it here. Below I will show you how I made the flowers and how to make them into a beautiful corsage for your Mom to wear on Mother’s Day!

You want to begin by making basic ruffles with the Crepe Party Streamers. Again, if you missed the sewing tutorial you can find the details here.

I made one continuous ruffle out of a strip of streamer cut to 120 inches long.

Starting at one end, fold the ruffle accordion style, back and forth, about 5 or 6 times. {Creased your streamer flat at the folds}

Go around about six times to create the center of your flower, then dab some hot glue on the end and fold a scrap piece of streamer over the glue to seal.

Continue wrapping the remainder of your ruffle around the flower center and hot glue the end to hold in place. Turn you flower over, squirt a dab of hot glue on the back and place another scrap piece of streamer on top to hold.

The front of your flower will now look like the picture above. To make mine even fuller I made another ruffle out of an additional strip of streamer measuring 60 inches and continued wrapping around the flower. {I simply hot glued the beginning and end of the ruffle to hold in place}

Once done flip your flower over, squirt some hot glue on the back and place two strips of scrap streamers over the glue as shown above. This will give you a nice flat back to work with and help hold the ruffles in place.

Isn’t she pretty?

I wanted to add some color to mine using few different shades of acrylic paint.

I lightly brushed on the various colors making sure to get in-between each petal. While the paint was still wet I took a squirt bottle filled with plain tap water and lightly misted the entire flower. I then went back with my brush and blended in the colors.

Once completely dry you have yourself a beautiful flower.

You can really get creative with the colors. {use your Mom’s favorite colors}

Awesome! I just had to make one tonight! I added it to one of my new fav crafts for gifting…a picture frame where I sew the picture on to either scrapbook paper or fabric. This was the perfect embellishment! YEAH!

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